Mathew Charrette's Reconstruction Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  2. 5. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
  3. 7. charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.
  4. 9. laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters
  5. 11. became the 17th President of the United States
  6. 12. to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
  7. 13. led efforts after the war to establish civil rights for former slaves and fully implement emancipation
Down
  1. 1. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
  2. 2. was the first black American to serve in the United States Senate
  3. 4. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
  4. 6. the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
  5. 8. Radical Republican answer to Lincoln's 10% Plan
  6. 10. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal